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Recent Examples of time lag
Flying home from a successful tour finale in Vancouver last year with a decent time lag before the season began was seen as ideal.
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Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 13 May 2025
According to her research, traditional fashion weeks lead to overproduction, and the time lag between the reveal of designs during traditional fashion weeks and availability leads to a disconnect that alienates young generations.
—Miles Socha, Footwear News, 27 Mar. 2025
Having the FPVs with the assault troops cuts that time lag to seconds.
—David Hambling, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
The researchers have already developed and begun testing several different versions of sweat sensors beyond the one described last week; a consequence of the time lag between publishing research results and making progress in the lab.
—IEEE Spectrum, 28 Nov. 2016
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Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 13 May 2025
According to her research, traditional fashion weeks lead to overproduction, and the time lag between the reveal of designs during traditional fashion weeks and availability leads to a disconnect that alienates young generations.
—Miles Socha, Footwear News, 27 Mar. 2025
Having the FPVs with the assault troops cuts that time lag to seconds.
—David Hambling, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
The researchers have already developed and begun testing several different versions of sweat sensors beyond the one described last week; a consequence of the time lag between publishing research results and making progress in the lab.
—IEEE Spectrum, 28 Nov. 2016
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for time lag
Noun
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Larijani also highlighted earlier engagements with European and Russian initiatives, which Tehran accepted with reservations for a six-month negotiation window.—
Amir Daftari,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Sep. 2025
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The Athletic covered the matter in this piece soon after the window closed.—
Chris Weatherspoon,
New York Times,
24 Sep. 2025
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The Skytech Prism 4 takes the lag and stutter out of gaming.—
Juhi Wadia,
PC Magazine,
23 Sep. 2025
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When the Federal Reserve started to lift interest rates in 2022 and 2023 to combat inflation, new activity slowed, but with a lag.—
Aldo Svaldi,
Denver Post,
23 Sep. 2025
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But no one really cared about pitch counts in that era, which could help explain why Koufax retired in the fall of ’66 at the age of 30, having pitched his last two seasons with an arthritic condition in a left elbow that Scully once remarked looked like a comma.—
Jim Alexander,
Oc Register,
8 Sep. 2025
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Cooking by weight would fix this, but since volume is the American default, the comma denotes an important difference.—
Alana Al-Hatlani,
Southern Living,
31 Aug. 2025
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Yes, there is naivety to his play at times — that is inevitable for one so young, and was evident again when he was booked for a dive just before the interval.—
Anantaajith Raghuraman,
New York Times,
22 Sep. 2025
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Better yet, reheat the food in small intervals (a minute a time, for example), and give the towel a few seconds to rest before continuing with the heating.—
Kait Hanson,
Southern Living,
20 Sep. 2025
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Their words will have bolstered his belief, giving him the confidence to show for and collect the ball again in the defensive third just after the break, using a combination of touches and pauses to evade Brentford pressure before making a more assured sideways pass this time.—
Anantaajith Raghuraman,
New York Times,
22 Sep. 2025
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The chair also called for a pause on minimum wage hikes, noting that garments remain a labor-intensive sector employing 600,000 to 800,000 workers.—
Glenn Taylor,
Sourcing Journal,
22 Sep. 2025
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The use of nuclear power in space has been mixed.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
24 Sep. 2025
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What was originally imagined as a space for multigenerational groups has since become a coveted backdrop for yoga retreats and hen weekends—where guests inevitably jostle for the chance to curl up in one of the cabin beds.—
Chloe Frost-Smith,
Vogue,
24 Sep. 2025
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As for the search process, which will be for the club’s 10th head coach all-time (excluding interims), Onalfo is not divulging a specific timeline or coaching profile.—
Julian Cardillo,
Boston Herald,
16 Sep. 2025
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Here's more on what needs to happen in Lansing, and what teachers are doing in the interim.—
Leah Olajide,
Freep.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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The interspace is enchanted mainly in its normalcy.—
Adam Gopnik,
The New Yorker,
17 June 2024
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Many of the bacteria at least partially survived, which helps to test one of the parameters for the theory of panspermia—that life on Earth originated somewhere else and was brought here on an asteroid or other interspace body.—
Caroline Delbert,
Popular Mechanics,
14 Sep. 2020
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“Time lag.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/time%20lag. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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